4 - Fanon and Development: A Philosophical Look: 10.4314/ad.v29i1.22186

Lewis R. Gordon

doi:10.4314/ad.v29i1.22186

Résumé

Cet article analyse les concepts d'imitation, de théodicée et d'immaturité contenus dans les idées de Fanon relatives au développement, et examine la manière dont sa critique transparaît dans la pensée de deux universitaires influencées par son œuvre: Sylvia Wynter et Irene Gendzier. Partant d'une perspective poétiste sémiotique, Wynter rejette le développement, qu'elle considère comme un concept très limité, fondé sur la normativité européenne et prône plutôt une révolution épistémologique. Gendzier, quant à elle, justifie l'argument de Wynter, à travers une critique historiciste généalogique des études sur le développement, et affirme que ce type d'étude est plus centré sur le Premier Monde que sur les autres mondes. Ensuite, l'auteur analyse puis critique les efforts d'Amartya Sen, qui cherchait à «secourir» les études sur le développement, en définissant ce dernier comme étant l'économie de la liberté. Le reste de l'arti définition africana phénoménologique post coloniale de la liberté d'une relation dialectique entre la réalité vécue des choix et des et le besoin d'un mondialisme humaniste radical, permettant de autres formes contemporaines néolibérales et conservatrices du mondialisme.

Fanon and Development: A Philosophical Look: 10.4314/ad.v29i1.22186

This article examines concepts of imitation, theodicy, and immaturity in Fanon's ideas on development and explores how his critique unfolds in the thought of two scholars influenced by his work: Sylvia Wynter and Irene Gendzier. Wynter, working from a poeticist semiotic perspective, rejects development as a much limited concept premised upon European normativity and calls for building an epistemological revolution. Gendzier, through a genealogical historicist critique of development studies, substantiates Wynter's critique and argues that development studies reveals more about the First World than any others. The author then considers and issues a critique of Amartya Sen's recent effort to rescue development studies through his formulation of development as an economy of freedom. The rest of the article presents an Africana postcolonial phenomenological treatment of freedom as a dialectical relationship between the lived reality of choices and social options and the need for a radical humanistic globalism with which to fight contemporary neoliberal and conservative ones.

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Biographie de l'auteur/ice

Lewis R. Gordon

The Laura Carnell University Professor of Philosophy, Temple University, USA.

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